University of St Andrews

School of Classics

Prof. Karla Pollmann

Professor of Classics

kfp@st-andrews.ac.uk

Phone: 01334 462615

Room: S10

Research profile

Research Interests

Greek and Latin literature, especially Late Antiquity; patristics; history of exegesis and hermeneutics; pagan and Christian correlations in literature and art.

Publications

Patristic Tradition and Intellectual Paradigms in the 17th Century
Pollmann, K. F. L. (ed.) & Bergjan, S-P. (ed.) 2010 Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck .
Research output : Book/Report › Book

Augustinrezeption durch die Jahrhunderte. Zeitschrift für antikes Christentum 11/1 (2007)
Pollmann, K. F. L. & Drecoll, V. 2007 Berlin: De Gruyter .
Research output : Book/Report › Book

St Augustine the Algerian
Pollmann, K. F. L. 2007 2 ed. Duehrkohp and Radicke . 51 p. (Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft - Beihefte).
Research output : Book/Report › Book

Poetry and Exegesis.
Pollmann, K. F. L. & Otten, W. 2007 E. J. Brill, Leiden .
Research output : Book/Report › Book

Augustine and the Disciplines
Pollmann, K. F. L. & Vessey, M. 2005 Oxford University Press . 258 p.
Research output : Book/Report › Book

Statius, 'Thebaid' 12: Introduction, Text and Commentary
Pollmann, K. F. L. 2004 Ferdinand Schoningh . 311 p.
Research output : Book/Report › Book

St Augustine the Algerian
Pollmann, K. F. L. 2003 Duehrkohp and Radicke . 49 p. (Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaften - Beihefte).
Research output : Book/Report › Other report

Aurelius Augustinus : Die christliche Bildung (De doctrina christiana)
Pollmann, K. F. L. 2002 Philipp Reclam . 288 p.
Research output : Book/Report › Scholarly edition

Double Standards in the Ancient and Mediaeval World
Pollmann, K. F. L. 2000 Duehrkohp and Radicke .
Research output : Book/Report › Book

Doctrina Christiana: Untersuchungen zu den Anfängen der christlichen Hermeneutik unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Augustinus, De doctrina christiana
Pollmann, K. F. L. 1996 Universitätsverlag Freiburg . 285 p. (Paradosis).
Research output : Book/Report › Other report

Art and Authority: Three Paradigmatic Visualizations of Augustine of Hippo
Pollmann, K. F. L. 2012 Augustine beyond the Book. Intermediality, Transmediality, and Reception. Pollmann, K. & Gill, M. (eds.). Leiden, p. 13-38 25 p.
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Tradition and Innovation. The Transformation of Classical Literary Genres in Christian Late Antiquity
Pollmann, K. F. L. 2012 Invention, Rewriting, Usurpation. Discursive Fights over Religious Traditions in Antiquity. Ulrich, J., Jacobsen, A-C. & Brakke, D. (eds.). Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang , p. 103-120
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Virtue, Vice, and History in Ammianus Marcellinus' Obituaries on the Emperors Julian and Valentinian I
Pollmann, K. F. L. 2011 Von Homer bis Landino. Beitraege zur Antike und Spaetantike sowie zu deren Rezeptions- und Wirkungsgeschichte. Suchla, B. (ed.). Berlin: Pro Business , p. 355-384
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Unending Sway: The Ideology of Empire in Early Christian Latin Thought
Pollmann, K. F. L. 2011 The Calling of the Nations: Exegesis, Ethnography, and Empire in a Biblical-Historic Present. Toronto, p. 176-199
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

“The same scene, and the same things acted”. Augustine as Intellectual Paradigm in Alexander Ross (1590-1654)
Pollmann, K. F. L. 2010 Patristic Tradition and Intellectual Paradigms in the 17th Century . Bergjan, S-P. & Pollmann, K. (eds.). Tuebingen, p. 35-55
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Epikur als Typos Christi? Lukrez und die christlichen Folgen
Pollmann, K. F. L. 2010 Text and Image. Weber, D. & Panagl, V. (eds.). Vienna, p. 41-55
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Normativity, Ideology and Reception in Pagan and Christian Antiquity: Some Observations
Pollmann, K. F. L. 2009 The Discursive Fight over Ancient Texts. Jacobsen, A. (ed.). Aarhus University Press , p. 51-59
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Exegesis without End?! Forms and Functions of Exegesis
Pollmann, K. F. L. 2009 Ph. Rousseau (ed.), Blackwell Companion to Late Antiquity. London: Blackwell , p. 258-269
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Ambivalence and moral virtus in Roman Epic
Pollmann, K. F. L. 2008 Vergil und das antike Epos. Freund, S. & Vielberg, M. (eds.). Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag , p. 355-366
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Der Metatext Bibel zwischen Wissenschaft und Glauben. Augustinus' De Genesi ad Litteram und die möglichen Folgen
Pollmann, K. F. L. 2008 Die Bibel als Text. Wischmeyer, O. & Scholz, S. (eds.). Tübingen/Basel , p. 121-134
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Exegese ohne Grenzen - Augustins Genesisauslegung im Kontext
Pollmann, K. F. L. 2008 Th. Fuhrer (ed.), Die christlich-philosophischen Diskurse der Spätantike. Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag , p. 99-111
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Varia rerum novitate (Prud. c.Symm. 2,329): Zwei frühchristliche Kulturentstehungslehren bei Prudentius und Avitus
Pollmann, K. F. L. 2007 V. Panagl (ed.), La poesie tardoantica et medievale. Alessandria
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Wann ist der Mensch ein Mensch? Anthropologie und Kulturentstehung in spätantiken Autoren
Pollmann, K. F. L. 2006 B. Feichtinger et al. (eds), Körper und Seele. Aspekte spätantiker Anthropolgie. Munich: Saur , p. 181-206
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Marriage and Gender in Ovid's Erotodidactic Potery
Pollmann, K. F. L. 2005 Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage. Smith, W. S. (ed.). The University of Michigan Press , p. 92-110
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Poetische Paraphrasen der Passio Acaunensium Martyrum
Pollmann, K. F. L. 2005 Mauritius und die Thebaeische Legion. Wermeligner, O. (ed.). Academic Press Fribourg , p. 227-254
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Sex and Salvation in the Vergilian Cento of the Fourth Century
Pollmann, K. F. L. 2004 Romane memento : Vergil in the Fourth Century. Rees, R. (ed.). Duckworth , p. 79-96
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Other contribution

Re-appropriation and Disavowal: Pagan and Christian Authorities in Cassiodorus and Venantius Fortunatus
Pollmann, K. F. L. 2004 Religious Identity and the Problem of Historical Foundation, Leiden. Frishman, J., Otten, W. & Rouwht, G. (eds.). p. 289-316
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Apocalypse now?! Der Kommentar des Tyconius zur Johannesoffenbarun
Pollmann, K. F. L. 2002 Der Kommentar in Antike und Mittelalter: Beiträge zu seiner Erforschung. Brill , p. 33-54
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Kontiguität und Eklipse: Zwei Auffassungen von Heiligkeit im hagiographischen Epos der lateinischen Spätantike
Pollmann, K. F. L. 2002 Metaphysik und Religion. Kobusch, T. & Erler, M. (eds.). K G Saur , p. 611-638
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Philologie und Poesie. Zu einigen Problemen der Textgestaltung in CSEL 16
Pollmann, K. F. L. 2002 Textsorten und Textkritik. Primmer, A., Smolak, K. & Weber, D. (eds.). Verlag der Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften , p. 211-230
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Hypocrisy and the History of Salvation: Medieval Interpretations of Matthew 23
Pollmann, K. F. L. 2001 Zeitschrift für Klassische Philologie, Patristik und lateinische Tradition Adolf Primmer gewidmet. Verlag der Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften , Vol. 114 , (Wiener Studien, Zeitschrift für Klassische Philologie und Patristik ).
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Other contribution

Alium sub meo nomine: Augustine between His Own Self-Fashioning and His Later Reception
Pollmann, K. F. L. Dec-2010 In : Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum . 14 , 2 , p. 409-424
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

Introduction: Five Contributions to Latin Philology AD
Pollmann, K. F. L. 2010 In : Millennium - Jahrbuch . p. 1-7
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

Philologia Perennis: Ever-green and Ever-pruning
Pollmann, K. F. L. 2010 Frons. Blad voor Leidse Classici, 30, p. 90-98
Research output : Contribution to specialist publication › Article

Freedom and necessity. St Augustine's teaching on divine power and human freedom
Pollmann, K. Apr-2008 In : Journal of Ecclesiastical History . 59 , p. 306-307 , 2 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

How to do things with Augustine
Pollmann, K. F. L. 2008 In : Journal for Church Studies . 5 , p. 31-41
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

Augustine, Genesis, and Controversy
Pollmann, K. F. L. 2007 In : Augustinian Studies . 38 , 1 , p. 203-216
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

After Augustine. A Survey of His Reception from 430 to 2000
Pollmann, K. F. L. & Lambert, D. R. 2004 In : Millennium - Jahrbuch . 1 , p. 165-183
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

Contributions to Metzler Lexikon christlicher Autoren
Pollmann, K. F. L. 2003 Metzler Lexikon christlicher Autoren
Research output : Contribution to specialist publication › Article

Early Christian Latin poets
Pollmann, K. 2003 In : Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum . 7 , p. 175-175 , 1 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

School and education in Imperial Roman North Africa
Pollmann, K. 2003 In : Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum . 7 , p. 172-172 , 1 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

Docere, delectare, movere - The so-called "Officia Oratoris" according to Augustine in rhetoric and theories on grace
Pollmann, K. 2003 In : Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum . 7 , p. 168-169 , 2 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

Vergil in early Christian thought. Investigations on citations to Vergil in the works of Tertullian, Minucius Felix, Novatian, Cyprian and Arnobius
Pollmann, K. 2003 In : Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum . 7 , p. 167-168 , 2 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

Augustinus der Algerier
Pollmann, K. F. L. 2002 In : Wiener humanistische Blätter . 44 , p. 40-68
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

Contributions to Metzler Lexikon antiker Autoren
Pollmann, K. F. L. 2002 Metzler Lexikon antiker Autoren
Research output : Contribution to specialist publication › Article

Contributions to Lexikon antiker philosophischer Fachbegriffe
Pollmann, K. F. L. 2002 Lexikon antiker philosophischer Fachbegriffe
Research output : Contribution to specialist publication › Article

Avitus of Vienna: Spiritual history, Vol 1: Songs I-III, Introduction, text criticism, translation and notes
Pollmann, K. 2002 In : Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte . 113 , p. 115-116 , 2 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

Caesarius of Arles: Sermons on Holy Scripture, Vol 1: Sermons 81-105
Pollmann, K. 2002 In : Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte . 113 , p. 114-115 , 2 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

Imitations of ancient and late-antique literature in the poem "'De Spiritalis Historiae Gestis'" by Alcimus Avitus
Pollmann, K. 2002 In : Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum . 6 , p. 353-355 , 3 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

Statius' Thebaid and the Legacy of Vergil's Aeneid
Pollmann, K. F. L. Feb-2001 In : Mnemosyne . 59 , p. 10-30 , 21 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

Contributions to Lexikon theologischer Schriftsteller
Pollmann, K. F. L. 2001 Lexikon theologischer Schriftsteller
Research output : Contribution to specialist publication › Article

The Transformation of the Epic Genre in Christian Late Antiquity
Pollmann, K. F. L. 2001 In : Studia Patristica . 36 , p. 61-75
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

A radical change in literature. From Roman to Christian literature AD117-284
Pollmann, K. 2000 In : Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum . 4 , p. 173-182 , 10 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

Late Antiquity and the panorama of Byzantine literature
Pollmann, K. 2000 In : Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum . 4 , p. 173-182 , 10 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

Augustine's 'City of God': A reader's guide
Pollmann, K. F. L. Dec-1999 In : Church History . 68 , p. 970-971 , 2 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

Poetry and readers in ancient Rome: Froms of literary communication
Pollmann, K. 1999 In : Classical Review . 49 , p. 581-582 , 2 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

Contributions to Lexikon der antiken christlichen Literatur
Pollmann, K. F. L. 1998 Lexikon der antiken christlichen Literatur
Research output : Contribution to specialist publication › Article

Panegyrische Technik in Horaz, Ode 4,9
Pollmann, K. F. L. 1998 In : Würzburger Jahrbücher für die Altertumswissenschaft . 22 , p. 159-175
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

Jesus Christus und Bacchus. Uberlegungen zu dem griechischen Cento Christus patiens
Pollmann, K. F. L. 1997 In : Jahrbuch der sterreichischen Byzantinistik . 47 , p. 87-106
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

Die Funktion des Mythos in den Satiren Juvenals
Pollmann, K. F. L. 1996 In : Hermes . 124 , p. 480-490 , 11 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

Contributions to Der Neue Pauly (also in English translation)
Pollmann, K. F. L. 1995 Der Neue Pauly (also in English translation)
Research output : Contribution to specialist publication › Article

Contributions to Handbuch der Lateinischen Literatur
Pollmann, K. F. L. 1989 Handbuch der Lateinischen Literatur
Research output : Contribution to specialist publication › Article

Five Contributions to Latin Philology AD: In Honour of Adrian S. Gratwick and Harry M. Hine
Pollmann, K. F. L. (ed.) 2010 In : Millennium - Jahrbuch . 7 , p. 1-86
Research output : Contribution to journal › Special issue

Untitled (Religion, Christianity, figures in the Church)
Pollmann, K. 2007 In : Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum . 11 , p. 35 , 3 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Editorial

History, Apocalypse, and the Secular Imagination: New Essays on Augustine's City of God
Vessey, M. (ed.), Pollmann, K. F. L. (ed.) & Fitzgerald, A. D. (ed.) 1999 In : Augustinian Studies . 30 , 2
Research output : Contribution to journal › Special issue

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Research students

I have supervised research students on a wide variety of topics including Juvenal, Silver Latin Epic, comedy, biblical epic, and several patristic and later writers. I put special emphasis on independent critical thinking, stringent methodology and interdisciplinarity.

I have conducted master-classes for postgraduates at the Universities of Boulder/Colorado (poetry of the Early Roman Empire), Bochum/Germany (Augustine) and Utrecht/Netherlands (general methodological questions).

Together with one of our former postgraduates, Boris Dunsch (now teaching at the University of Greifswald/Germany), I organized a conference on 'Double Standards in the Ancient and Medieval World' at St Andrews, summer 1998, where a high percentage of the speakers were advanced postgraduates (see also select publications).

Teaching

Apart from contributing to shared courses on Classical literature and culture I am a specialist in teaching Roman epic and Late Imperial Literature.

Academic Career

After studying classics and divinity at the universities of Tübingen, Munich, Cambridge (GB) and Bochum, I took my first degrees in Greek, Latin, and Pedagogy (1989), and Divinity (1990) at Bochum University where I also completed my PhD on early Christian poetry (1991). My habilitation on Augustine's hermeneutics was completed at the University of Konstanz (1994).

After a research stay as an Alexander-von-Humboldt-fellow (Feodor-Lynen-programme) at University College, London I came to the University of St Andrews in 1995. Since then I have spent time as a visiting scholar at the universities of Vienna in Austria, of British Columbia (Vancouver) in Canada, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, as a Charter Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford, and as a Fellow-in-Residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study.

Activities and awards

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